Disability Pride Month: Honouring Our Bodies Through Yoga

July 2025

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to acknowledge, recognize, and celebrate the strength, resilience, and diverse experiences of people who have disabilities.

It’s an opportunity to challenge ableism, uplift voices from the disability community, and advocate for inclusive practices in all areas of life—including wellness and movement.

One powerful way to honour this month is by embracing the transformative practice of yoga through an inclusive lens.

Yoga isn’t just about physical flexibility or strength—it’s about connection: to breath, to self, and to community. For people who have disabilities, yoga can offer a meaningful path to self-awareness and empowerment, especially when it is practiced in accessible and adaptive ways.

Inclusive yoga recognizes that every body is different and that all expressions of movement are valid. It encourages practitioners to explore poses in ways that suit their individual bodies, whether seated, lying down, or using props like straps, bolsters, or mobility devices. Teachers who foster accessible yoga spaces prioritize consent, offer multiple options, and use language that honors autonomy and choice.

For many, yoga becomes a form of resistance—challenging narrow definitions of health, ability, and beauty. It’s a reminder that strength can look like stillness, and balance can be found in breath. When yoga is made truly inclusive, it becomes a tool for liberation, not limitation.

This Disability Pride Month, let’s celebrate the many ways people who have disabilities move, breathe, and thrive. Let’s support adaptive yoga programs, amplify disabled yoga teachers, and reimagine wellness spaces as places where everyone belongs.

Your body is worthy of movement, of stillness, and of pride—just as it is.